Shepard Fairey Quotes

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

I steal from every movie ever made.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture.

I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.

Everybody steals my lines.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

Ten comics can say the same joke, and I'm the one who gets called a thief.

When I made 'Tales of Tacobella,' and I made 'Sugar Trap,' it was like people literally trying to say that like, either that they made it, or that they helped make it, and then they continued to try to steal the flow, try to steal the aesthetic of everything I tried to build.

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.